The Meiji Restoration and Modernisation: 5 Areas

5 Areas Japan Modernized and Restored

1. The eradication of feudalism allowed for people to specialize in any job they would like, which meant greater economic stability and security.
2. The formation of the national education system and constitution. This constitution and system meant that most people had to attend six years of public school because it is the moral thing to do. This was a change towards the western model. They also implemented a diet program, which in turn made people heathier.
3. An overhaul of military strategy and weaponry. During the restoration rebellion was stifled using a newly trained infantry unit that was western trained. The introduction of fire arms also meant the traditional samurai were made obsolete.
4. They introduced a tax system which allowed for the rapid expansion and growth of the economy.
5. The political scene changed from a bunch of warlords ruling over Japan to an "emperor" who did not rule directly, but rather had a council to take into consideration.

Source: Modern Tokyo Industrial Plant

Industrial Revolution Final Presentation

Cover Letter For Industrial Revolution Expo

Cover Letter For The Position Of Industrial Revolution Expo

Boulder Exposition 2016

777 Expo Street

Boulder. 80205

Contact Information:

Name: Erik Salvia

Address:
911 Paperstreet
Papertown Minnesota   

80344

Cell Phone Number: 07432670028

Email: bannonISgod@newworldorder.org








Dear Exposition Director,

I am applying for the open presentation. I am writing to you because I belive that I hgave a truley special invention to display at the expo. I also happen to be an inventor myself, and thusly I follow the news of the legendary Boulder Industrial Expo. I found out about the opening of this position in your help wanted add in the magazine "Invention Expos Weekly". I have an invention that is not only uses no electricity, but it also conserves water. This invention is called the GiraDora Washer. This washing machine is powered using pedals, thus conserving water as well as conserving the .13 kHw per day of electricity that using a normal washing machine would use.
My invention has a lot to offer the Boulder 2016 Industrial Expo. Not only is my envention envyriomentally friendly, but it also is cheap to produce, and cheap for consumers, costing only forty dollars. This is good because most eco inventions are expensive due to the technology and science involved. In the 21st century we have issues with droughts, like the one in California, or the poisionous lead water in Flint, Clay, and a few other towns. This will help us not only save water but it will help with the fossil fuel used to heat the water in the wash. We also have an issue in the united states with electricity and energy consumption. The affordability in all aspects of this invention would allow for a relatively easy mass production, which in turn would allow for a significant improvement in energy conservation and water conservation. This invention is also a necessity, meaning that basically anyone who can afford a washing machine owns one. The price reduction would allow for a wider demographic and more people with lower incomes could afford to buy a GiraDora Washer.
Thank you for this wonderful opportunity. If you wish to contact me I am available by phone or email.


Sincerely,
Mr. Salvia

Thoughts & Reflections - The American Automobile Industry's Road From Glory to Disaster

Thoughts & Reflections - The American Automobile Industry's Road From Glory to Disaster

By: Paul Ingrassia 

One Idea that's fundamental to any modern industry can be displayed as a math equation. Mass production + mass marketing = mass consumption = modern America. This is also the equation that Ford utilized when he started his manufacturing process.The model T is compared to the Iphone in this article. The model T costs $850 while the Iphone 7 plus costs roughly $780. This is a pretty accurate comparison. However in 1901 money with inflation the model T would cost roughly $20,606. After the Wagner act was passed in 1935 unions started to form. These unions allowed for workers to organize strikes for better working conditions and higher pay. These unions were fought hard with police and violence. Such as the battle of the running bulls, when workers sat down in the factory and were unsuccessfully flushed out out by police. Eventually union workers achieved their goal, they received a higher wage and more vacation time.
The automotive industry in America has undergone several changes. One of the most notable changes is the industries is the fact that Detroit is no longer the industrial powerhouse it once was. After the massive crash in 2008 factories were left abandoned.

Abandoned Packard Motors Factory, Detroit

 Another change that's not as dramatic is the massive switch to automation on the assembly line. While there still are people on the assembly line it is no longer staffed exclusively by humans. According to the article the old ford plants of the 1910s took 90 minutes to make one car, while in 2015 a Popular Mechanics Article said the modern Ford factory can produce 60 cars per hour.

Old Ford Assembly Line Source

Here is a video of a modern Ford car plant. 

Charles Dickens' Hard Times in 21st Century China

 21st Century China, described by Charles Dickens

 1. “………a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes allowed it.

Buildings in Beijing Source

 2. “…….a town of machinery and tall chimneys”.

Industrial zone in China source

 3. “…….interminable serpents of smoke”.

Factories in Beijing Source

 4. “…….it had a black canal in it”.

River in rural China source

 5. “…….a river that ran purple”.

Local river in Wenzhou, China source

 6. “…….vast piles of buildings full of windows that were rattling and trembling all day long”.

Beijing source

 7. “……..the piston of the steam engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in melancholy madness.”

Factories in Beijing source

 8. “It contained several large streets, all very like one another: and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours with the same sound upon the same pavement, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow and every year the counterpart of the last and the next”. 

Factory workers in China source

 9. “All the public inscriptions were painted alike, in severe characters of black and white”. 

Chinese Street Signs Source

 10. “The jail might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or both, or anything else, for anything appeared to the contrary in the graces of their construction”.

Building in China source

Thoughts & Reflections - Hard Times and Engels Comparison

Thoughts & Reflections - Hard Times and Engels Comparison

Image: Coketown

This T&R is going to compare the thoughts of Charles Dickens and Engels in regards to how they viewed the conditions of living during the industrial revolution. The thing that is interesting is that they do share some of the same ideas however they say them in different ways. Dickens uses a more poetic tone while Engels uses a more philosophical tone. 

The first idea that they share is the concern of air quality. Engels starts by saying "The carbonic acid gas, engendered by respiration and fire, remains in the streets by reason of its specific gravity...The lungs of the inhabitants fail to receive the due supply of oxygen. Dickens shows this with the quote "a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes allowed it." Both of these quotes show the authors commenting on the poor air quality and heavy smog. 

The second idea they share is the idea that factory work is dehumanizing. Dickens states "The piston of the steam engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in melancholy madness.” While Engels states "This condition which degrades, in the most shameful way, both sexes." Both of these statements have to due with the fact that working in the factory conditions are detrimental to the health and well being of the people.
This concept can be seen in a different way with the Dickens stating “It contained several large streets, all very like one another: and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours with the same sound upon the same pavement, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow and every year the counterpart of the last and the next”. Engels says that "They are deprived of all enjoyments except that of sexual indulgence and drunkenness, are worked every day to the point of complete exhaustion of their mental and physical energies." These quotes both show the monotonous and never ending work for the men and women of the industrial era.
 [Side Note: Nine Inch Nails - a music group that is considered "Industrial" meaning there music invokes the feeling of the industrial world, with pumping engine like drum beats, and mechanical droning overtones. One of their songs titled "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" echos the thoughts of Dickens "whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow and every year the counterpart of the last and the next" As well as the dehumanization that Engels states.]  

 

I believe I can see the future
'Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But then again, that might have been a dream

I think I used to have a voice
Now I never make a sound
I just do what I've been told
I really don't want them to come around, oh no

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

I can feel their eyes are watching
In case I lose myself again
Sometimes I think I'm happy here
(Sometimes)
Sometimes, yet I still pretend

I can't remember how this got started
Oh, but I can tell you exactly how it will end

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

I'll write it on a little piece of paper
I'm hoping, someday, you might find
Well I'll hide it behind something
They won't look behind

I am still inside her
A little bit comes bleeding through
I wish this could've been any other way
But I just don't know, I don't know what else I can do

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
(Every day is the same!)

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